Green: 4240 books
Underdog Politics
The Minority Party in the U.S. House of Representatives
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
In the first comprehensive study of the subject in decades, political scholar Matthew Green disputes the conventional belief that the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives is an unimportant political player. Examining the record of the House minority party from 1970 to the present, and...
by E. Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
"The epistle of 2 Peter has had a very rough passage down the centuries," says Michael Green in this commentary. "Its entry into the Canon was precarious in the extreme . . . It was deemed second-class Scripture by Luther, rejected Erasmus, and regarded with hesitancy by Calvin."...
by Ann Patrick Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
This is the introductory volume of a three-book set designed to guide young pianists from the most basic techniques and theory to a mastery of the easy classics. The Primer consists of ten lessons, each of which may be divided into smaller or larger segments as needed. Geared toward students ages 4 to...
Postcolonial Automobility
Car Culture in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
For more than a century cars have symbolized autonomous, unfettered mobility and an increasingly global experience. And yet, they are often used differently outside the centers of global capitalism. This pioneering book considers how, through the lens of the automobile, we can assess the pleasures,...
Broken Promises
How the AIDS Establishment has Betrayed the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Ideological blinders have led to millions of preventable AIDS deaths in Africa. Dr. Edward C. Green, former director of the Harvard AIDS Prevention Project, describes how Western AIDS “experts” stubbornly pursued ineffective remedies and sabotaged the most successful AIDS prevention program on...
State Crime
Governments, Violence and Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2004
What is state crime? This book sets out the parameters of state crime and highlights the complex issues involved. The authors provide a clear chapter-by -chapter assessment of state violence, corruption, state involvement in organised and corporate crime, avoidable ‘natural’ disasters, torture,...
by William Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Originally published in 1959 to much acclaim, William Green’s Famous Bombers Of The Second World War, provides the most accurate and comprehensive view of the bomber aircraft that were used by both the Axis and the Allies. In this first volume, the author covers 18 different aircraft and their variants...
Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.
A Historical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise...
by Peter Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1996
This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis *in the U.S.
The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached...
The Smart Enough City
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.
Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence...
The Third Disestablishment
Church, State, and American Culture, 1940-1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
In 1947, the Supreme Court embraced the concept of church-state separation as shorthand for the meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The concept became embedded in Court's jurisprudence and remains so today. Yet separation of church and state is not just a legal construct; it...
The Vulgar Tongue
Green's History of Slang
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Once the language of thieves and beggars, slang is an ever present part of today's culture for people across the strata. It allows us to connect to others, to express otherwise guarded thoughts, and to convey humor in the everyday. But how did slang escape its stigma as the language of the streets...
The Second Disestablishment
Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Debates over the proper relationship between church and state in America tend to focus either on the founding period or the twentieth century. Left undiscussed is the long period between the ratification of the Constitution and the 1947 Supreme Court ruling in Everson v. Board of Education, which...
Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
André Green attempts the complex task of identifying and examining the key ideas for a contemporary psychoanalytic practice.
This undertaking is motivated both by the need for an outline of the evolution of psychoanalysis since Freud's death, and by the hope of tackling the fragmentation which...